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The Shwedagon temple in Rangoon is one of the sites that could receive more Western tourists

Kenneth DenbyRangoon

Last updated at 11:14AM, November 4 2010

The 15-year-old, opposition-inspired tourism boycott of Burma was declared over yesterday when the party of the Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that it would now welcome foreign travellers.

In an historic statement, Win Tin, a senior leader of the National League for Democracy, told The Times in an interview in Rangoon that foreigners should visit Burma and see for themselves the suffering of the people under one of the world’s most stubborn and repressive military dictatorships.

“We want people to come to Burma, not to help the junta, but to help the people by understanding the situation: